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Tuesday, May 8, 1979
University Daily Kansan
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Hearings open on oil profit tax
WASHINGTON - A Senate Finance subcommittee opened opening yesterday on President Carter's windfall profits tax plan and criticized Carter's general plans.
von. Russell Long, D-LA, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, told Energy and Treasury Department officials of the need for a solution to the problem.
What we sought to be talking about is making this country energy independent. Long said, and asken: "Have you any plan to make us able to do that?"
Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., said the tax plan was "nothing more than an excise tax on crude oil."
He also criticized the plan as providing insufficient incentives for domestic production.
priorsate.
Carter's plan would impose a 40 percent tax on windfall profits resulting from the distribution of nicks received on domestic oil.
SALT II outline is completed
WASHINGTON - The framework of a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons was completed late last night by Soviet Union and U.S. officials.
Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dohyrin
finished the outline after a 45-minute session at the White House.
nistrated the outside area, with a team planning a summit meeting for the sign of the SALT agreement, with announcement of the meeting likely by mid-week.
The treaty had appeared near completion for several weeks. The final details concerned testing of missiles with multiple warheads.
Gas bill aets federal support
TOPEKA—Federal energy officials yesterday contradicted an oil and gas lobbying group's statements that a state natural gas price control bill would cut
In a letter to the Kansas Corporation Commission, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission quelled assertions by the Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association that such a bill would void current natural gas contracts in the state and lead to out-of-state sale of Kansas gas.
The Kansas Legislature extended its regular session to conduct hearings on the bill tomorrow.
one unit tonne nor one hundred pounds; it would be unlawful for a supplier to try to charge higher-than-contracted prices or to cancel contracts if purchasers refuse to pay
Gov. John Carlin, in a prepared statement, charged the oil and gas association with "gritty misrepresenting the facts" surrounding the impact of
Atchinson snipina guns named
ATCHISON "The snipers who opened fire on between 25 and 30 persons at a party in a park shelter Saturday probably used a high-powered rifle and a gun."
Authorities canvassed houses near the park yesterday, looking for clues in the shouting speeches that left two men dead. Although several persons have been arrested, no one has been charged.
The gunfire, which witnesses said came from three directions, wounded seven persons. Joseph E. Linder Jr., 23, of Atchison, died Saturday of stomach wounds. Another Atchison man, Darrell Johnston, 22, died Sunday of head wounds.
Based on reports of witnesses, police say they thought three men fired into the group a few hours after several uninvited men had been asked by the group to
Police quoted witnesses as saying the men left, but threatened to return with friends.
S police Sgt. Bill Jasper said, "This is tough, because it was dark and a lot of people there weren't able to give us any details."
Less gas, price rise expected
NEW YORK--On industry officials said yesterday that there would be a supply squeeze within the coming months and that gasoline prices would rise.
"There's no denying that we're looking at a very tight situation, and I don't see what's going to change that." Edward Murray, director of statistics at the CIA.
Carl Meyerdrick, a spokesman for Standard Oil Co. said, "The situation is probably not going to get any better during the summer. Conceivably, it could
Transportation Secretary Brock Adams predicted yesterday that the lines appearing at California gas stations would spread throughout the nation in
He also said that not all areas would have shortages and that supply problems would vary.
"There may be areas where no shortages will occur," he said.
Industry officials were cautious about making predictions about the summer baseline, saving that variables could complicate the situation.
Nuclear delaus favored in poll
NEW YORK-Public support for a moratorium on nuclear power plant construction has increased since the March accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant.
Sixty-five percent of those persons interviewed by telephone April 30 and May 1 said they agree that "No more nuclear power plants should be built in this country . . . until questions about safety are resolved, even though some say this will mean energy shortages within 10 years."
Support for such a moratorium rose 12 points from the findings of the AP-NBC News poll taken in September.
Despite the public's increased concern for safety, 51 percent rejected the idea of closing down all nuclear power plants until questions about safety are answered.
Forty-three percent supported a shutdown order, while 6 percent were not sure.
Police sau killings unrelated
BOSTON—Police here say a string of 11 killings since the first of the year appears to be random and unrelated.
Three black women have been killed in Boston since Friday.
Deputy Superintendent John Barry he thought only the first two killings—teenage女女孩 found wrapped in a plastic trash bag —were linked.
The latest victim, an unidentified woman in her 28s, was found behind an apartment building in the city's fashionable Back Bay neighborhood.
Doctor says radiation level low
So far, six men have been arrested in connection with seven of the slayings. The latest victim, an unidentified woman in her 28s, was found behind an
A medical examiner ruled that the need for "multiple bound force injuries" was overdue. A team of medical experts, with victims ranging in age from 15 to 31, All were found within three miles of one other.
Barry said that the police had established extra patrols to try to prevent the killings but acknowledged that their powers were limited.
George Voelt, an occupational medical specialist who supervised the Silkwood autopsy, said her body contained less than one-fourth the maximum amount of blood.
OKLAHOMA CITY - A doctor testified yesterday that Karen Silkwood, a KMR-MeeG nuclear worker, would have suffered no ill effects from radiation if
Vexel, testifying in the $11.5 million nuclear contamination suit filed by Silkwood's survivors, said the autopsy report confirmed results of radiation exposure during the study.
The doctor's testimony disputed the medical opinion of John Goffman, a doctor who earlier told the court Silkwick had suffered enough radiation exacerbation.
Voelz is expected to be the final defense witness in the federal court trial, now in its 10th week.
Weather.
Skiers today will be partly cloudy, according to the National Weather Service. There is a 30 percent chance of rain this afternoon, with temperatures around 80
JERUSALEM (AP)-Israel sent war-
plains against Palestinian targets in
Lebanon for a second straight day yester-
day, the Lebanese invited the Lebanese to
neutralize peace.
Israel continues air attacks
before Begin opened the summer session of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, with his offer to meet Lebanese President Elias Sarkis and of neutral soil to negotiate peace treaty.
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin vowed continued attacks on bases of "terrorists who spill the innocent blood of men, women and children."
The air raid, in which no casualties were reported, was made on a Palestinian area held by guerrillas 11 miles inside Lebanon near the town of Rehib.
ISRAELI JETS hit the area just one hour
Syrian forces were sent to end Lebanon's 1975-76 civil war, in which right-wing groups led by Osama bin Laden.
Syria, which maintains 22,000 troops in Lebanon, may not allow Sarkis to meet them.
Shimon Peres, leader of brazil's opposition Labor Party, called Ben's offer a
Palestinian guerrillas. The Damascus government is one of the leaders of Arab rejection of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.
THE ISRAELI raid Sunday, which reportedly wounded 25 persons, was aimed at a refuge camp in the northern Lebanese town of Nahr-E-Bared, near Mohmara.
Israeli gunboats shelled the town last month after guerrillas landed on the northern Israel coast in a raid on the town of Gaza, and both were killed,including two children, were killed in the raid.
In Cairo yesterday, Egyptian Foreign
Minister Burtos Ghali called for the United States to "harmlessly intervene" to stop the kidnapping.
STATE DEPARTMENT officials said
W. Ambassador Samuel Lewis had met
the Israeli government officials in
Jerusalem on Wednesday. The
officials, who asked not to be named,
did not say whether Lewis had carried
the warship or or after Ghali asked
the United States to answer.
In the northern Lebanese village of
Mokmara, meanwhile, townpeople buried
their children in the cave.
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